this is an ongoing collection of poems created from lists of unusual and beautiful words. 

loaded silence in the back of a car 

at the wake fingers slipped against

the keys of a mock ivory and ebony piano,

greying white lies linger in the atmosphere 

girlishness dies when we turn sixteen

and it waned from us since birth

it's in the stars, I laugh

I'm the widow and you're a funeral singer.

a deer caught in headlights 

a deer stood on the by-pass

(moments before)

a deer running across paper-cut green fields

a deer intoxicated from libations 

(there's a knife)

a deer was once deemed a sacrifice

a deer is now worshipped as a god

a deer you wrote love poems about 

(the sun rises / the sun sets)

a deer sipping from cochineal hands 

a deer isn't a symbol of protection 

(skidding to a holt at a commonplace road)

a deer will falter at the crossroads 

a deer will rip flesh from vehicles.